Chapter 1: What does it mean to confuse motion with progress?
Stop confusing motion with progress. Are you just being busy to be busy? Are you masquerading like doing the hard thing that you know you should do from just like doing random tasks to think you're in motion or think you're doing the right thing? I did an episode about goals and targets. And the most important question you want to be able to ask yourself is what do I really want?
Because you certainly can be working very, very hard, but you could be climbing the wrong mountain or climbing the wrong ladder. That's just motion. You're just spinning your wheels, doing the same thing over and over and over again, telling yourself that you're working hard.
Chapter 2: How can you identify if you're just busy being busy?
But you're not doing things deliberately or with intention, right? You're masquerading sort of your busyness or you're masquerading your exhaustion as to sort of lie and tell yourself that you're being productive. But maybe you're not even being productive on the right thing. thing. And so you're climbing all these ladders that you don't actually want.
And so you have all this motion and from the outside looking in, it looks like you're dominating or working hard or doing great things, but really you're just sort of walking or running or even sprinting on this treadmill and you're not getting anywhere. You just have motion, don't have progress.
And so again, got to go back to the fundamentals, the basics, the really clear ideas like what do you really, really want? That's your North Star. That's your target.
Chapter 3: What fundamental questions should you ask to find your true goals?
That's where you're aiming at. Then you distill it down to what can I do every single day that I have full control over that's going to bring me closer to that target, to that idea or that
mission or that target or that vision that i said that i really really want okay that's progress because you've outlined something that you actually want that's intrinsically or extrinsically motivated either way is fine at the start but you're not just sort of spinning your wheels in place you're not just running on a constant treadmill you're not climbing a ladder that you don't even fucking care about
You're moving forward with progress on something that you actually care about. And now you know what the systems, the processes, or the routines you can do that are fully in your control that are actually gonna move you closer to that goal. That's progress, not just motion. So stop confusing motion for progress.
And the only way to know if you're making progress and not just spinning in a fucking circle is to actually understand what your real target is. What are you actually aiming at? Is it for you? Is it for someone else? Is it for your family? Is it all above? Right? What is the target you're headed at? What's getting you out of bed every morning? And then how can you make progress on that?
Well, you reverse engineer it back to the daily habits, daily systems, and the protocols that are fully in your control. That's actual progress. So again, number one, stop confusing motion with progress. Patreon is the home of our exclusive community where we do bonus episodes, live streams, Q&As, and merch discounts, and so much more.
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